Dear Len,
My motivation to suggest to move to Yahoo is that I just subscribed to
another eGroup and really liked it because of a.o. the fact that you don't
get any spam and that it is quite impossible for any spammers to harvest
email addresses from the postings. My suggestion was not directly a proposal
to become the possible moderator but I am willing to when we can do it
together. I know that Athel is the moderator of the news group as it is but
this does not prevent us from all the free sex...free credit messages and
all the other crap.
I think we will just have to wait and see how the community reacts. So far
only you and Douglas did. NB: A big advantage of the Yahoo group is that you
can monitor how big or small the member group is.
Regards Bart
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Bart van Rotterdam
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~rdam/
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"Len Pattenden" <ddlpatte at mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote in message
news:Pine.OSF.4.30.0111160917010.9456-100000 at dingo.cc.uq.edu.au...
>> I see advantages to this, but subscribers must create Yahoo profiles
> which makes you subject to Yahoo spam. If you select the "web only"
> interface, you get pop-ups. The other advantage is member sections, for
> files, internet bookmarks etc etc. To avoid excess spam be cautious
> when setting up a yahoo profile, do not select an interest in free
> offers or anything additional and if asked about your income bracket
> always select impoverished figures. If the list moves, I'll upload an
> anti pop-up programme, so web only users won't have to put up with too
> much yahoo crap.
>> I don't think this list is dead, just thoughtful ;-). I certainly have a
> lot of questions I'd like to ask but don't want to appear too stupid in
> the asking. I imagine others feel the same.
>> Are you the moderator Bart? I thought it was Athel, but I'm often wrong.
> If you need help or advise setting up the yahoo group let me know. I've
> done a few of them.
>> Len...
>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Bart van Rotterdam wrote:
>> > Dear All,
> >
> > The group seems to be pretty much dead but overfloeing with spam. Would
it
> > not be a nice idea to move the whole group to Yahoo eGroups. In that way
you
> > have a much more controlled environment without any spam.
> >
> > Regards Bart van Rotterdam
> >
>
